How much are singers, conductors and directors paid?
Italy’s Classic Voice magazine has published a list of the current maximum fees paid by the Italian opera houses, and, surprisingly – though according to many singers I know, not surprisingly – the...
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En Avant’s next ballet projects include a special encounter with Marcelo Gomes
The En Avant Foundation will present specialised coaching master classes for advanced pre-professional and professional dancers in San Francisco and in New York in April 2015. The Foundation's...
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The Tricks of the Trocks: powder, ice and pointe shoes
[gallery type="rectangular" ids="184954,184949,184944"]The audiences laugh, sometimes the dancers laugh, but getting a dozen or so male dancers on pointe through more than one hundred performances a...
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Sergei Polunin to replace ailing David Hallberg in Giselle with Natalia Osipova
[caption id="attachment_33092" align="alignright" width="500"] Svetlana Zakharova and David Hallberg, Swan Lake, La Scala, 2014[/caption]David Hallberg has been forced to withdraw from his Spring...
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Cecilia Bartoli cancels her American tour
Cecilia Bartoli has withdrawn from her US Tour "due to unforeseen circumstances".The tour was to kick off in six days time from Santa Monica, five concerts in all, taking in Irvine and finishing in...
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Cello Suites at La Scala: the good news and the bad news…
Cello Suites with Claudio Coviello – photo by Brescia e Amisano – Teatro alla ScalaFirst the good news…The La Scala ballet company is in formidable shape. Makhar Vaziev and his team have nurtured many...
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600% bounses for La Scala’s musicians but Chailly isn’t happy
Riccardo Chailly – photo DeccaYou may have already read about the refusal of some La Scala workers to perform Turandot on 1 May being that it is the International Workers’ Day. However, it is also the...
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The Royal Opera House’s £27m ‘open up’ project to go ahead
The £27m scheme to ‘open up’ the Royal Opera House in London has been given the go ahead by Westminster City Council. The plans will make the entrances and street-level public spaces of the Opera House...
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Bryn Terfel: “These are a few of my favourite things”
The Financial Times magazine How to Spend it recently interviewed Bryn Terfel on what happens in his life when he’s not being a singer. Here are some of his favourite things: Golf club: Sunningdale...
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Baryshnikov and Bob Wilson take on Nijinsky in Milan: Letter to a Man
Mikhail Baryshnikov and Bob Wilson have been in Milan rehearsing their new project: Letter to a Man, inspired by the diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky, The diaries were written in six months in 1919 – says...
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Roberto Bolle celebrates his 40th birthday with a tour and book
Today Roberto Bolle turns forty, and he has announced both his summer Bolle and Friends tour and the publication of a new book. The 2015 tour will see the Bolle caravan arrive in Los Angeles at the...
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Photos of ENB’s 2015 Emerging Dancer Jinhao Zhang
The winner of English National Ballet’s 2015 Emerging Dancer Award is Jinhao Zhang. Zhang joined the Company just last year after graduating from English National Ballet School. He performed Dying...
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Roberto Bolle on (not) retiring at forty
All the stars, the étoiles, have gone on dancing past pensionable age. Roughly speaking, that’s 45 for a dancer. For most people this is about the right age, but it changes for those who have charisma....
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Guildhall students take opera scenes to China
As part of the celebrations of the first Year of Cultural Exchange between China and Britain in 2015, students from London’s Guildhall School of Music and Drama début in Shanghai’s Grand Theatre on 3...
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Massimo Murru on Roland Petit: he was a great s*****o!
We tend to gloss over the negative aspects of colleagues who are no longer with us, and are usually discreet about their shortcomings when they are still alive. It is left to the gutter press to dig up...
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Dame Nellie Melba possessions sell for $3 million
More than eighty years after her death, more than $3 million Australia dollars ($2.3m US dollars) have been paid for items from Dame Nellie Melba’s estate in a Sotheby’s auction. She was one of the...
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Svetlana Zakharova on her emotions, motherhood and not wanting to dance
Does Svetlana Zakharova find it easier to express her emotions on stage than in life? Without a doubt. In life I don’t like to reveal them. Why? Is it a Russian thing? No, it’s how I was brought up....
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Eleonora Abbagnato becomes director of the Rome Opera Ballet
Eleonora Abbagnato is to become the new director of the Rome Opera Ballet. The official announcement from the Rome Opera’s sovrintendente is expected in the next few days. It is known that Rome’s...
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A good, old-fashioned gala? Pignotti salutes Nureyev
Luigi Pignotti was Rudolf Nureyev’s massager then manager. He now has a company which produces evenings of ballet, flamenco and tango… though not together. It was, maybe, obvious that he would dedicate...
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Pereira announces that Carla Fracci will return to the stage of La Scala
La Scala’s new sovrintendente, Alexander Pereira, has announced that Carla Fracci, the Italian ballerina par excellence, will return to the Milanese theatre that witnessed many of her triumphs during...
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